Saturday, October 10, 2015

Obama calls Putin "weak" but not to his face

President Obama says that Putin's campaign in Syria is a sign of his weakness. 

He might as well have said that "Putin riding a horse shirtless is his poor attempt at making me look bad on my bike." Or "Putin beating my butt in boxing is his pathetic way of trying to look stronger than me." And so on.

In a CBS "News" interview on Friday, our so-called "Commander in Chief" said that Russian airstrikes in Syria are a sign of growing weakness of Vladimir Putin. He questioned whether Putin is simply defying us in the Middle East by attempting to support Bashar al-Assad's regime now in its fourth year of fighting.

"When I came into office, Syria was Russia's only ally in the region," our fearless leader said. "And today, rather than being able to count on their support and maintain the base they had in Syria, which they've had for a long time, Mr. Putin is devoting his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a thread his sole ally."

Obama's philosophy about holding onto allies is likely not lost on Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu.

When Obama was questioned in the interview about the situation where Russia is "challenging your leadership, Mr. President," and "is bombing the people that we are supporting," Obama skirted that fact and questioned whether that was any indication of leadership at all.

"If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership," Obama said.

So how then does Obama define leadership? By not leading the world? By leading from behind? 

Just ask the trail dog on the sled how's that working out for it.

But you must admit, when it comes to running an economy into the ground, Obama is the man to do it.


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